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My important, ridiculous nose

The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.

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Public health campaigns and the ‘threat’ of disability

By continuing to represent disability as the feared outcome of disease, public health campaigns help to perpetuate prejudice against disabled people.

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  • Turner's syndrome karyotype 45,XO. This female lacks the second X chromosome present in the normal karyotype. Symptoms include short stature, neck wbbing, elbow deformity, widely spaced nipples with shield chest, primary amenorrhea, sexual infantilism and sterility. The ovaries are reduced to fibrous streaks. Also known as XO syndrome or ovarian short-stature syndrome.
  • Photos of obese man with Infantilism and thyroid disorder
  • A boy casting the shadow of an adult, referring to the danger of inherited venereal disease. Colour lithograph after Reginald Mount.
  • 'Polyglandin'.
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  • 'Polyglandin'.
  • 'Polyglandin'.
  • Sintestrina Richter : estrogena sintetica con ventajas sobre la foliculina ... / Gedeon Richter (América), S.A.
  • Sintestrina Richter : estrogena sintetica con ventajas sobre la foliculina ... / Gedeon Richter (América), S.A.
  • Bencao Gangmu -- C.16 Chinese materia medica, Bezoars, etc.
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